Conspiracist Beck: "I've been the only show on television that has debunked these conspiracy theorists"

It was awhile ago but he did debunk a specific "FEMA camp" (if that counts as a conspiracy theory). Turned out to be some sort of vehicle maintenance facility if memory serves. At the time I thought he would use that story as an example of his credibility. Maybe that's what he's referring to now.

I've never heard Nostradumbass actually debunk a conspiracy theory... but maybe he has.

Don't get me wrong - I don't think he INTENTIONALLY debunks them. I just think that he covers so much territory in advancing his own manic fables that he can't help but have parts of his own mania break a link or two in some of the existing lunacy.

The identification of some theories, the manufacture of others, the half-hearted debunking of some of them and the wholesale acceptance of the rest, lends itself to uncertainty. "You can't trust anyone." "Have you heard about...?" "Did you know about so-and-so in the government who thinks...?" "You know what the purpose of that is?" And on and on. Not only is he insulating his viewers against reason, but he requires anyone that tries to counter the claims of his followers to dig to levels of detail where speculation is all that's available. Speculation breeds paranoia. Beck is the one that guides it. In the end, he's the one that regulates the emotion. He demands a communicable framework of excessive detail. It makes the paranoia contagious.